By IANS,
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has asked a victim of the 1984 anti-Sikh to approach an appropriate court for seeking proceedings against senior Indian Police Services (IPS) officer Amod Kanth and other officers.
The order came on a petition filed by Amrik Singh Lovely, one of a group of 16 victims, in 2005, seeking court intervention to punish the police officers for “harassing and implicating him and his family members in a false criminal case and for playing fraud against the government of India for getting the President’s Police Medal”.
Justice V.K.Shali, in his order passed last week said: “The counsel for the petitioner has the liberty to file any other complaint as he withdraws the case and avails the remedy available in law.”
Singh, in his petition, recounted that a mob had collected outside his Paharganj residence on Nov 5, 1984, a week after the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi.
When the mob attacked his uncle Amir Singh, the petitoner’s father Faqir Singh fired from his licensed gun, the petition said.
In a short while, a joint contingent of the army and the police, the latter being led by Kanth, then a deputy commissioner of police, arrived on the scene, the petition said.
Singh claimed that the police, instead of taking steps to contain the mob, rounded up his family members, including a six-month-old baby, and jailed them in the Daryaganj police station.
All 16 were allegedly kept in the lock-up for the night before the police registered a case against them under several sections of the Arms Act and the Indian Penal Code, including murder.